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joyharry_281042
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Jul 22, 2016

How to Allow Underscore in HTTP Header?

Hello All,   I am working on the requirement to allow underscores in HTTP headers by default F5 does not allow it. Can anybody let me know what I need to do at the F5 end to allow underscores like...
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Jul 22, 2016

is this the line that worries you joyharry?

Set the Load Balancer to allow underscores in request headers. For example, set the value of the underscores_in_headers custom header directive to on in Nginx.

as mentioned by a few people now the F5 does allow this, if you feel differently please show us where it says it doesn't work.